Keywording is Scary…Official

With the global decline is media due to advertising budgets being cut, it is no surprise that many photographers are finding that commissions are becoming harder to get. This has meant that freelancers have started to look more at the photography stock as a way of earning additional income to fill the gap. But selling stock is a bit of a mine field when you … Continue reading Keywording is Scary…Official

How to Record Good Audio

If you are a photographer wanting to do multimedia slideshow you are probably going to need to know how to get good sound and here is a simple 3 step video on how to do just that And further for those who dablle with journalism the International Journalists.net have a Youtube site with training videos Continue reading How to Record Good Audio

The Bicycle Wheel

In a previous post I referred to the slope of the bath tub which was an analogy for proving your photographic gear. Of course the wise will do heavy testing at all ISO and lighting conditions to work out how the sensor records details in the shadows as well as the highlights. They will also test their lenses for sharpness, flaws and find the optimum … Continue reading The Bicycle Wheel

Canon G10

Well the Canon G10 has been announced   with a 28 mm wide angle, 14.7 Megapixel, Digic 4 sensor (to name a few) The best news is the  even greater reduction of noise due to the new Digic 4 sensor…check out the links below for the previews http://gizmodo.com/5050924/canon-powershot-g10-147mp-flagship-sub+dslr-goes-wide+angle   http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=144&modelid=17624#ModelFeaturesAct   http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08091702canon_g10.asp Continue reading Canon G10

The good old days to the norm with compact image transmition devices

I have to say I really enjoyed this post as it reminded me of when I was working as a sports photographer for a national press agency. It is also strange to think that photographers use common soloutions to their problems, as I have been using the Pocket Phojo and a PDA for the last year to do remote transmitions, with the Nikon D2x or … Continue reading The good old days to the norm with compact image transmition devices

Photosynth is now Live

From the photosynth blog (the actual site is overwhelmed with hits at time of writing but you can read the blog here or view this video to see what it is all about and how photography is going 3D There is two URL’s for photosynth http://photosynth.net and http://photosynth.com There is a photography tutorial here as well as a how to video here Photosynth Blog We’re … Continue reading Photosynth is now Live

Photographers agree to blur firearms officers faces

Now this is what really annoys me, who has given the photographers, agencies and newspapers the authority to agree to this, this should have gone trough the unions for a decision if any. So now we have “The police will be issuing guidelines to picture desks across all London papers soon.” but thousands of press photographers won’t get that guideline, so it should be down … Continue reading Photographers agree to blur firearms officers faces